"Not My Job Anymore" Release Date and ARC Reader Opportunity!

Dear Friend, 

I’m extending a Special Offer exclusive to my newsletter subscribers: the opportunity to read a free ARC (Advanced Reader Copy) of the Not My Job Anymore ebook, for those who would kindly consider reviewing the book after reading, and posting their review on Amazon on launch day. Reviews help other readers discover books they may enjoy.

For those already subscribed, the latest newsletter contains the link to download the free book. Or subscribe now at margiebenedict.com/#subscribe to receive the link.

AND anyone who finds a typo will get a special mention in my acknowledgments, plus my everlasting gratitude and admiration. 

LAUNCH DAY: MAY 2, 2026

GENRE: Upmarket Fiction / Book Club Fiction (with humor and romance)

MINI DESCRIPTION: A woman flees her toxic marriage of 40 years in search of her own true love story.

LONGER BLURB:

When Anthony sends his weekly “garbage day” text and Viola replies, “every day is garbage day with you, darling,” she knows she can’t endure their suffocating forty-year marriage much longer. After her mother dies, she leaves her unraveling life in California to settle the estate in a Massachusetts beach town in January.

Grief gives way to revelation when Viola learns her mother and Anthony spent their lives upholding a devastating lie. Intent on punishing her husband, she sets out to indulge her worst impulses. After a night of hard drinking with her crazy friend from high school days, Viola takes a polar plunge, where a would-be rescuer sparks her dormant desire—then vanishes.

While Viola pursues the mystery man, a winter nor’easter assails the family home perched on stilts beside the relentless Atlantic, eager to swallow her newfound agency. Her fiery arguments with Mom’s ghost, the inexplicable theft of Mom’s ashes, and Anthony’s impending arrival threaten to crush her last chance for a new life and new love.

NOT MY JOB ANYMORE, in ebook, paperback, and hardcover, will be available to order from your favorite local bookstore and Amazon on 5/2/26. 

Thanks for your kind support.

❤️Margie

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